A Cat by Hanna Khodasevych

It was extremely quiet in the room. No one ran as a mad, no one jumped on the bad, no one
meowed loudly. The big black cat finally felt relieved, but she still had a melancholy look on her face.

About two month ago
- Mom, look at our cat, - said Lana. - Kimmy is so fat! She, definitely, has to lose some weight.
Otherwise she will become too heavy to jump and run.
- What a silly girl! She is just pregnant, Lana, - said her older sister Natta.
- What does it mean, pregnant? – asked Lana.
- It means that in a few months our family will become bigger for few more kittens, -
answered their mother.
All the morning Kimmy was following the mother step by step. “Here comes a big day”,
thought mom. And she wasn’t wrong. Late at the evening their family became bigger for four more
members. One black and three grey little kittens were born.
The mother was sitting near Kimmy and her little kittens.
- Oh, they are so sweet, - said Natta.
- Where are they? I want to see them! - Lana ran into the room.
- Just look how cute they are! – Natta told her smaller sister.
- Ew, they are so ugly. They are wet and look like rats, - disgustedly said Lana.
- Don’t worry, just in a few hours they will look like nice sweet real little kittens, - the mother
ensured Lana.
Kittens grew up very quickly. Just in a few weeks they started to open their little eyes. After a
little more time they started to try walking and jumping. Firstly, they were really clumsy, but
everyday they became more and more skilled.
Just in one month began to do a big mess in the flat. They started to run, crawl and jump
everywhere. Moreover, they decided that everyone has to know everything about their movements,
which is why they meowed every time they entered a new room, ate, drank, visited WC or just got
lost.
Every night they chose a victim, with whom they slept. They didn’t give him/her any chance to
move somehow. One of them always slept on a pillow, one was lying on the legs, one climbed on the
top of a person and one warmed a right or a left side.
The life of the family stopped to be calm and quiet.
Every girl picked up a favorite kitten and tried to create perfect conditions for their beloved
pets. They became so accustomed to them, that they didn’t want to split up with their favorite pets.
- Mommy, lets keep him with us. Just look in his beautiful eyes, - said Natta, holding a small
grey kitten in her arms.
- No, mom, lets keep this one, - said Lana, showing the black tiny kitten sleeping on the bed.
- Girls, we can leave neither of these lumps of happiness. You’d better not got used to them, -
strictly said their mother.
As the time to say goodbye came closer and closer, girls became sadder and sadder. They
cried, when no one saw them and tried to spend as much time with their favourite pets as possible.
But still the farewell was inevitable. And just in two months they had to give little kittens to
their new families.